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From: krish (krish_at_astro.ge.com)
Date: Fri Dec 01 1995 - 07:07:27 PST
To some extent I am sceptic about many of our Vaishanvite sampradayams. Of course, what I have been taught or used to is becasuse of my upbringing in Triplicane around the parthasarathy Koil. One of them is selcetion of an Acarya. Our family P.B. called themselves swamacharyas. There are quite a number of clans or groups of swamacharyas. What it meant was that samaschryanam was performed by the eldest member of the joint family. My uncle who spent his retired life as a member of the Vedhaghosti, did it for the qualifying mebers. Of course hewas not an expert in any of the philosophies. So we were not brought up with any special regards or respects to Jeers. My question is how do the swatamacahryas fit in, among those that regard the wise Jeers and mata-dhipathis. Krish